Jaipur, June 11 -- Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Railways and Information & Broadcasting, Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Thursday announced the establishment of an Advanced Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications Lab at the Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur.

According to the release, the lab will be established under the Electronics and ICT Academic Project of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). It will focus on building indigenous capabilities in Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), Quantum Computing simulation, and Quantum Sensing hardware components.

Addressing students and faculty members, the Union Minister said that while the current technological wave is being dr...